The move was made to help offset a salary-cap crunch after the Seahawks reached long-term extensions with quarterback Russell Wilson and linebacker Bobby Wagner, according to ESPN.

The Seahawks signed Wilson to a four-year extension worth $87.6 million on Friday and signed Wagner to a four-year extension worth $43 million on Sunday.

McDaniel, 30, was set to make $2.5 million in base salary this season and was scheduled to become a free agent in 2016.

McDaniel spent two seasons in Seattle, starting 29 of 32 games, collecting 83 tackles, two sacks, two passes defensed and one fumble recovery. In the postseason, he started five of six games, collecting 14 tackles, two passes defensed and one fumble recovery.

Originally signed by Jacksonville as an undrafted rookie free agent in 2006, McDaniel spent three seasons with the Jaguars before moving on to Miami and playing four seasons with the Dolphins (2009-12). In nine NFL seasons, he has played in 111 games with 34 starts, totaling 212 tackles, 10.5 sacks, nine passes defensed and two fumble recoveries.

The Seahawks also traded an undisclosed 2016 draft choice to the Detroit Lions for cornerback Mohammed Seisay.

Seisay signed with the Lions as an undrafted rookie free agent on May 12, 2014, played in 13 games in a reserve role and collected three solo tackles on defense and two special teams tackles for the season.

A Mexican photojournalist who left the state he worked in because of threats was among five people found shot to death in a Mexico City apartment this weekend, officials and press freedom advocacy groups said.

Ruben Espinosa was a photographer for a number of outlets, including the leading newsweekly Proceso and Agencia Cuartoscuro.

His killing brings to the forefront the duress and danger under which many Mexican journalists work.

Espinosa had left the coastal state of Veracruz last month because he felt threatened. He went to the capital, where he sought refuge, but didn't shy away from doing interviews with other media about what his experiences.

"I had to come (to Mexico City) in a context of violence that journalists in Veracruz have to live under," Espinosa said in his last recorded interview.

He described Veracruz -- where 13 journalists have been killed in the past five years -- as a place where "it's complicated to do journalism."

The bodies of the five shooting victims were discovered on Friday in an apartment in the Narvarte neighborhood in south-central Mexico City, the prosecutor's office said.

Four women and one man were found shot dead inside, the prosecutor's office said, without naming the victims. They were from 18 to 40 years old.

A press freedom advocacy group, Article 19, spoke with Espinosa's family members, who confirmed that they identified the photographer's body at the coroner's office on Saturday.

There were signs of severe blows to the journalist's face, the group said.

Espinosa's employer, Proceso, reported that the photographer had been shot twice.

The prosecutor's office said they found the bodies of two women in one room of the apartment, a man and a woman in another room and a fourth woman identified as the apartment's housekeeper in a bathroom. Three of the woman lived in the apartment, officials said. The names of the four women were not immediately released.

Espinosa's family told Article 19 that they last heard from the photojournalist at 2 p.m. Friday. When they didn't hear from him later, they alerted the advocacy group, which in turn alerted authorities.

In interviews, Espinosa had explained why he left Veracruz.

In June, Espinosa told Article 19 that he noticed he was being followed in several locations and given menacing looks. At least one of the people who appeared to be following him snapped photos of him. Espinosa told the advocacy group that he also saw men standing outside his home in Veracruz, and who gave him menacing looks before walking away.

In the last interview he recorded, with the outlet RompeViento, he said simply, "I had to leave because of acts of intimidation."

"I had to leave because it was not a direct threat, but I got the message. It was just recently when students were attacked and brutally beaten with machetes. In these situations, we can't do less with any type of aggression or intimidation because we don't know what might happen. Veracruz is a lawless state," Espinosa told the outlet.

According to Proceso, Espinosa had faced close calls in the past. In 2013, uniformed state police beat him during a clash between protesting teachers and authorities in Veracruz.

Kaiser Carlile was inadvertently struck by a bat during a National Baseball Congress World Series game.

Carlile has been the Liberal Bee Jays' only batboy this summer, team president Nathan McCaffrey said. The Liberal Bee Jays is a summer league baseball team for college players. "He was a part of the team," McCaffrey said in a statement.

McCaffrey, who was at the game, said one of his team's batters accidentally hit Carlile during a warmup swing as the boy was retrieving a bat that had just been used. He said he heard the bat collide with Carlile, who was wearing a helmet. Carlile took three or four steps before he fell as the team rushed to him.

"Just to see him fall, that's what crushes you," said McCaffrey. He said the team wanted to go to the hospital, but the family asked that they not do so.

"I have heard he is still hanging in there," McCaffrey said, adding that it is, "understandable not to want to have 25 guys there when it is so emotional."

The hospital could not provide any other details about Carlile's condition or treatment.

The Bee Jays went on to win the emotional game over the San Diego Waves 12-5 in 13 innings. The National Baseball Congress released a statement calling the incident "an unfortunate and tragic accident. One that saddens us all."

"Donald is going to be as serious as Donald wants to be. And he's going to determine through the depth of his answers and the seriousness of his answers whether he is a serious candidate or he isn't," Christie said in an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper aired Sunday on "State of the Union."

"Anybody can do well for a month in this business, especially if you have talent and personality, and Donald has both those things. Let's see how this goes over the course of time," he said.

The straight-talking New Jersey's governor's presidential hopes largely ride on his confrontational style catching on -- particularly in New Hampshire, the state he's made the focus of his campaign.

But Trump's rise -- a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll out Sunday had the real estate mogul leading the Republican presidential field again with 19% support -- has dipped directly into Christie's potential well of support.

Now, Christie is landing around ninth place in national polls, putting him on the edge of missing the 10-person cutoff for Thursday's first GOP debate in Cleveland, hosted by Fox News.

That's fine with him, as long as he makes the cut, Christie said.

"Once you get on the stage it's not going matter whether you're number one or five or 10," he said. "You get the opportunity to make your pitch to the Republican primary voters across America."

He took another shot at Trump during the interview, calling his comment that undocumented immigrants should all be deported, with "the good ones" allowed back in an expedited process, as impractical as Trump's other proposal to build an enormous wall across the U.S.-Mexico border.

"This is like building a 2,000-mile wall across the border that Mexico's going to pay for," he said. "It sounds really good you, pound your chest, but the question is how? How are you going to do it?"